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Values

I think that I have fairly conventional EA values.

On the Categorisation of Intellectual Company

From the In-Group to the Far-group

A Brief Inquiry into the Recreational Contemplation of Catastrophe

I’ve heard the argument a few times recently that people don’t want to believe in x-risk for emotional reasons. Someone gave a talk making this claim at an EAGx conference, and I read this in 3quarksdaily’s review of Yudkowsky and Soares’ new book the other day:

The Great Happiness Stagnation

A Moderately Progress-Skeptic Manifesto

You Can't Really Bet on Doom

Mostly against a very bad anti-doom argument

Playing At Saving the World

A Browser Game to Solve AI Governance

The Collider Bias Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

Preamble

Local Detours On A Narrow Path

Digging Into Some Enforcement Failures in Chinese AI Governance

Finding a Niche in China x AI Governance

Reflections after ML4Good Governance Bootcamp

Most of the World Is an Adorably Suffering, Debatably Conscious Baby

Thoughts after five months of fatherhood